Lawnchair Larry: The Man Who Flew a Lawn Chair to 16,000 Feet
In 1982, truck driver Larry Walters tied 45 weather balloons to a lawn chair and accidentally soared to 16,000 feet over Los Angeles. This is his true story.
The Hardware Store He Forged
For forty-one years my father stood behind the long oak counter at the front of Aldous Hardware, and in all that time I never once… Read more
The Ledger The Thief Never Read
The first time Royce Tillman called me sweet, I should have counted my fingers after he let go of my hand. He came into Hapgood… Read more
The Seat at the Head Table
For forty-one years I cut hair in the front room of my house on Sorrel Street, in a town in central Nebraska so small the… Read more
The Swing We Never Finished
For twenty years there was a porch swing in my father’s barn that had no seat. The frame hung from two chains my father had… Read more
The Christmas the Whole Town Showed Up
For four winters I never told one soul in Coldwater County how close we were to going under, and then three days before Christmas I… Read more
